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URRENT NOTES. 



The Annual Exhibition of the South London Entomological 

 Society will take place on November 24th, at Hibernia Chambers, 

 London Bridge, S.E., at 7.30 p.m. The Secretaries ask for information 

 concerning exhibits in advance. Visitors kindly invited. Exhibitors 

 are also urged to label their exhibits. 



The Conversazione of the Entomological Society of London, post- 

 poned from May last to December, has again been unavoidably post- 

 poned until next year. Due notice will be given as soon as a date 

 has been fixed for it on some day either in May or early June. 



Dr. Wood describes {Ent. Mo. Mcuj.) six new species of I'hora, viz., 

 P. albican data, P. spinicincta, /'. sylratica, P. hirticaudata, P. wani- 

 cata, and P. hirsuta. 



Dr. Sharp describes a new species of Laccobiiis as L. yteneims, 

 recorded as occurring in the New Forest in great abundance in Sep- 

 tember, and as having been taken also in Devonshire (de la Garde), 

 Cornwall (Champion), Padstow ^Lamb). 



Dr. Norman .Joy and Mr. Tomlin describe a beetle new to science 

 as Kriciiius histrio. It appears to be widely distributed — Oxford, 

 Southport, Bradfield, Whitbourne-on-Terne, Symond's Yat, Mathon, 

 and West Malvern. It occurs among hay, and appears first to have 

 been suspected by Mr. J. Collins as distinct from E. transversus. 



Dr. Norman Joy also adds Atheta {Homalota) picipennis, Majunh., to 

 the British list on the strength of specimens taken at Dalwhmnie, 

 Invernessshire, on September, 1909, and at Aviemore in rotten fungus 

 in September, 1910. 



Mr. Richard S. Bagnall adds three species of Thysanoptera to the 

 British fauna, riz., Cryptothrips lata, Uzel, Liot/irips /iradcrensis, 

 Uzel, and Arautliothripa nodicuniis. Renter. 



.SOCIETIES. 



Thh; South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 SepteiiibcrHth, 1910. — Birds and pup^ of Nonagria arundinis. — Mr. J. P. 

 Barrett exhibited a number of reeds from which larvae and pupae of Non- 

 ayria ariindiiiis had been extracted by birds. Coleoptera. — Mr. Ashby, 

 a series of Anomala f r isc It ii horn the New Forest, three-fourths of which 

 were of tbe beautiful blue-green aberration. Rare Homopteron. — 

 Mr. West (Greenwich), a short series of tbe rare Homopteron, Olianis 

 leporinnx, from Hohnsley, New Forest. Aberrations of Lepidoptera. 

 — Mr. Newman, long varied series of Aijrotis cinerea from North Kent, 

 and I'achnobia alpina from Kannoch, Euehelia jacobacae with red 

 markings united, a number of I'hiayniatobia fidiyinosa, bred in August 

 from Aberdeen ova laid in June, of the red southern form, and a 

 varied series of Amorpha pupidi, including an unicolorons specimen, and 

 one with a greenish band. Dragonfly caught by Drosera. — Mr, Step, 

 for Mr. Bishop, a cluster of Droaera intermedia from Cutmill, which 



